Recordings

ICA Classics – Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch – Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk & Steuart Bedford
The pairing of Janet Baker and John Shirley-Quirk in this music seems surprising at this distance in time, with their careers long finished and reputations solidified.John Shirley-Quirk is predominantly associated...
Mstislav Rostropovich – The Complete Decca Recordings [with Benjamin Britten and Sviatoslav Richter]
The recorded oeuvre of Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007) for Decca is significantly less in volume than that for EMI, Warner Classics and, of course, what he documented in Soviet Russia, but...
JoAnn Falletta conducts Holst [Ulster Orchestra; Naxos]
JoAnn Falletta has made numerous recordings, including quite a few for Naxos. The Ulster Orchestra is no stranger to the studio, either. But this is the first ‘red-light’ time together...
Beethoven The Nine Symphonies/Daniel Barenboim [West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Decca]
The accompanying literature for a set of this nature normally confines itself to musical analysis together with brief information about artists and orchestra but in this case it is entirely...
Dvořák Piano Trios – Gould Piano Trio [Champs Hill Records]
The Gould Trio is making a brave showing in recordings: a Beethoven series has started on Somm and now there is this excellent Dvořák cycle. The playing is very beautiful...
LSO Live – Elektra [Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet, Angela Denoke, Felicity Palmer, Matthias Goerne & Valery Gergiev]
The received wisdom about Richard Strauss’s first two mature operas – Salome and Elektra – is that the composer wrote them in a progressive musical language which anticipated the abandonment...
John Barbirolli conducts Tristan und Isolde Act II [Kirsten Flagstad & Eyvind Laholm; New York 1939]
This is the thirteenth issue under the auspices of the Barbirolli Society documenting the conductor’s highly successful tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic. This latest offering is...
Christina Åstrand & Per Salo play Violin Sonatas by Bloch, Ravel & Janáček [Orchid Classics/CD & DVD]
This is a most distinguished package, featuring two of Denmark’s leading musicians who make up a regular duo. Christina Åstrand studied with that wonderful lady Tutter Givskov, who long led...
Thomas Beecham conducts Berlioz, Grieg, d’Indy & Saint-Saëns [Somm]
This is a most welcome release: further live performances from Somm by Thomas Beecham, a great conductor who nevertheless divides opinion. Here he is in repertoire that suits him down...
Neeme Järvi conducts Orchestral Works by Camille Saint-Saëns [Chandos]
We’re thrown straight into an exotic, sultry and, indeed, bacchanalian world with the Samson and Delilah excerpt here given an exhilarating outing (with quiet timpani figures justly caught in the...
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